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3 Shevat 5759 - Jan. 20, 1999 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
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CALENDAR FOR
PARSHAS BESHALACH (Shira)
5759

Sunday, 7 Shevat-
Shabbos, 13 Shevat
(Jan. 24-30, 1999)

DAF HAYOMI
Bavli:
Yoma, 20-26
Yerushalmi:
Yoma, 13-19

MISHNA YOMIS
Brochos, 5:1-7:1

HALACHA YOMIS
Orach Chaim 45:1-47:10

CANDLE LIGHTING
in Eretz Yisroel:

Parshas Bo:
Yerushalayim:
4:28 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
4:42 P.M.

Parshas Beshalach:
Yerushalayim:
4:35 P.M.

Bnei Brak:
4:49 P.M.

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NEWS

Showdown in the Knesset: UTJ Makes Approval of the Budget Contingent on the Amendment to the Religious Councils Law
by Eliezer Rauchberger, Mordecai Plaut and Arye Zisman

The chairman of the Knesset's Finance Committee, Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz of United Torah Judaism, reiterated this past Monday his refusal...


OPINION & COMMENT

Editor's Notebook
by Mordecai Plaut

Nothing these days seems to be like it used to be, including these days themselves.


HOME & FAMILY

Refoel's Story
by Sheila Segal

I sat on the faded wooden bench in the park. It was Shabbos afternoon, and this playground was filled with the happy sounds of children at play.


FEATURES

HaRav Meir Chodosh -- 10th Yahrtzeit 29th Teves 5759
By Rabbis Yaakov B. Friedman and Aharon Meir Kravitz with Moshe Musman


Additional Calendar Information:

The last day for Kiddush Levonoh -- Shevat

One can say Kiddush Levonoh in the entire world until Sunday night, the eve of 15 Shevat (Feb. 1), at 3:38 A.M., Israeli time. In most of Europe the final time is 2:38 A.M., in New York 8:38 P.M. In western USA and Canada it is impossible to make a brocho this night and their actual final time is the entire Motzei Shabbos, the eve of 14 Shevat (Jan. 30). In eastern countries it is possible to make a brocho on the levonoh the entire eve of 15 Shevat.

The astronomical full moon is approximately nine and a half hours earlier than the nigud emtzo'i and comes together with a partial lunar eclipse. The eclipse starts at 4:09 P.M., at 6:07 P.M. is the full moon (if there would not have been an eclipse), the peak of the eclipse is at 6:19 P.M., and its conclusion is at 8:28 P.M.

If one did not yet make Kiddush Levonoh on Motzei Shabbos in Eretz Yisroel he can make a brocho on Sunday night before Ma'ariv from approximately 5:45 P.M. until 6:07 P.M. In most of Europe and in America one cannot make any brocho at all. In the eastern countries a brocho can be made according to the difference in time zones in comparison to when in Eretz Yisroel is 6:07 P.M. (One should not abstain from making a brocho during the eclipse especially since it is only a partial one, however, one should not make a brocho after the astronomical full moon even when the eclipse is only partial. The time of liloh (night) for the brocho on the levonoh is before the time of saying Shema. See Birur Halocho IV and V, Orach Chaim, chap. 426).


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